Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An Order of St. John group of five awarded to Captain C. K. Muspratt, Hampshire Regiment, who was Mentioned in Despatches for his services with the British Army of the Black Sea during the Russian Intervention

The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, 3rd type, skeletal badge, silver; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. C. K. Muspratt.); Defence Medal; Service Medal of the Order of St John, with one Additional Award Bar (26588. Cps/Off/ C. K. Muspratt. No.2 Dis. S.J.A.B. 1943.) mounted as worn; together with the related miniature awards, very fine (5) £200-£240

Order of St. John, Serving Brother London Gazette 4 January 1949

Colin Knox Muspratt was born in Christchurch, Hampshire, in 1893, and was educated at Sherborne School and New College, Oxford. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Hampshire Regiment on 29 August 1914, and served with the 2nd/7th Battalion during the Great War in the Middle East, being advanced Captain. For his services during the Russian Intervention whilst attached to the Royal Engineers he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 20 May 1920).

Post-War, Muspratt ‘... entered the Malay Civil Service in 1921, but contracted a tropical disease which forced him to resign in 1925, and progressively incapacitated him for the remaining 33 years of his life. He nevertheless kept up, in retirement at Bournemouth, his intellectual pursuits, and interest in public service, including the Scout movement. A keen traveller and archaeologist, he had some 800 slides, made from photographs taken on his travels, with which he lectured in aid of charities, and he was busy up to the end with work for the Church and the St. John Ambulance Association. In the Second World War he did as much as his physical condition allowed in Civil Defence and the Home Guard. He died at Bournemouth on 18 March 1958’ (the recipient’s obituary in The Shirburnian refers).

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